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[10.25.15] paper smooches SPARKS challenge

Paper Smooches SPARKS

{5.29.2012} hugs

Oh my, it is so hard to say goodbye.  It was a dream to be apart of the SPARKS challenge team from Paper Smooches the first time in 2012 and THEN to come back to play again earlier this year was amazing.  Paper Smooches has and will always hold a special place in my heart because of the SWEETEST owner and design team coordinator.  I can’t thank Kim and Savannah enough for making this team so much fun!  So today, for our last ANYTHING goes challenge, I’m saying THANK YOU.

Anything Goes PSS

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A great big THANKS to Paper Smooches and to all the players of the Spark Challenge.  I’ve so enjoyed playing along and visiting our players blogs.  I will miss you all.  Luckily, there will be a new challenge starting in November on the main Paper Smooches blog — http://papersmooches.blogspot.com/

Link up your project at the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog by Saturday, 11:59pm PST.

Check out the other girls sharing their SPARKS cards this week.
Audrey
Lisa
Erin
Heather
Savannah

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[5.28.2015] unity thursday round-up

Unity Thursday

WOW, where da heck did May go?  I can’t believe June is right around the corner.  It is THURSDAY, so that means some crafty fun with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.  There’s always fun stuff going on.

I made quite a few projects this month for Unity that never made it to my blog.  So, I’m calling today my May Unity round-up.  Lol.

love. just love. regardless.

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These are both done with watercolor pencils.  I haven’t used my colored pencils in ages, so it was fun to do a combo of pencils and water.  Since I’m so obsessed with watercolor lately.

change is never easy

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I love polka dots.  I could have polka dot layers forever.  I colored the butterflies with Copics and then added some distress inks around the edges.  I sprinkled on some orange-yellow spray ink as the end for a pop of color.

for all your help birdies

 

dahlhouse designs | 5.2015 thanks for your help

Last, we have this happy little card.  Just some simple Copic coloring and happy patterned paper.  One quick card.

** COMMENT PRIZE **
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Here are all the girls hopping today…  just click on the next pretty girl in line.

 

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[3.19.15] unity thursday

Happy Thursday

Yay for THURSDAY!!!  Hope you are having fun hopping with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.

Today, I have a set of cards using the brand new sentiment kit for March/April… Thanks Above & Beyond.   Lots of amazing sayings for thank you cards and I just love the butterfly and flower images.

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I’m all about the new transfer foil craze!!!  It is soooooo pretty in real life.  I had such a hard time getting a good angle to capture the shine, hope you can see it.  I was sold as soon as Jennifer McGuire posted her tips on how to do this technique without a big fancy machine.  I used the laminator method she demonstrated in her video.  I stamped my images on cardstock, scanned them into my computer and then printed them out using a laser printer.  Then, I ran it through the laminator.  Super easy really and the results are ever so lovely.

** COMMENT PRIZE **
Don’t forget to leave a comment on each blog today.
We’ll be giving away 2 prizes from comments left on the participating blogs.

Here are all the girls hopping today…  just click on the next pretty girl in line.

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[3.15.2015] paper smooches sparks

Anything Goes

{5.29.2012} hugs

Check it out… anything goes this week in the SPARKS challenge from Paper Smooches.

Anything Goes PSS

Sometimes the simplest cards are the prettiest. I started out with the watercolored background using Distress Inks and let it dry completely.  While it dried, I die cut the “thanks” three times out of white cardstock and then once from gold cardstock.  Then, I stacked and glued them together.  I hit my watercolored piece with some heat to make sure it was completely dry and then white embossed the sentiment.  Stray embossing powder will stick to any bit of moisture, so I wanted to be sure it was completely dry.  Then, I just assembled everything together.  I love this layout, it would be fabulous for a gift set and easy to mass produce.

I’m going to tell you a secret, I do not like yellow gold.  I’m a silver and white gold person.  I’ve avoided the whole gold craze in card making for the longest time and then March happened and I caved.  Ha.  I admit it, gold is soooo pretty and I’m using it on everything.  So be warned, you’ll be seeing a lot of gold happening.

Link up your project at the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog by Saturday, 11:59pm PST.

Check out the other girls sharing their SPARKS cards this week.
Alice
Lisa
Erin
Jenny
Savannah
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[12.3.2014] farewell Paper Crafts & Scrapbook Magazine

Farewell PC&S

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my first pub

It is a sad day that we are all coming together to say farewell to another crafting magazine.  I’m so sad that Paper Crafts & Scrapbook Magazine is shutting its doors. I have such love for this magazine.  It is an industry standard that not only inspired me, but challenged and blessed me in so many ways.  Beyond being published, the friendships that this magazine has brought me are nearest and dearest to my heart.  My first publication in PC&S (back when it was only Paper Crafts) left me bewildered and honored.  Like so many, I submitted for a long time before that FIRST amazing email arrived tell me my little card was selected to be apart of the March/April 2012 issue.  Squeal, I will never forget that moment when SUSAN OPEL emailed me!!!    And the rest is history.

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I just want to say THANKS to everyone involved in the PC&S company and community for so many wonderful years.  Especially the employees who made PC&S happen.  We are losing a magazine, but they are losing so much more.  I wish all of them wonderful things and hope that their journey moving forward is blessed because they have blessed the lives of so many.

There are so many of us that want to say thank you and best wishes.  You should have arrived from Maria Fischer’s blog and you are off to Wendy McGaffey’s blog next.  Just in case, you can find the FULL list of hoppers at the bottom of my post. Thank you so much for stopping by.

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